Improvement in check-row-planter attachments



W. ARMSWORTHXz J. H. BRGWN. Check Row Planter. Attachment.

479. Patented March 19, 1878..

MPETERS. PHOTO-LITHOGRAPNER, WASNINGTUN, n. c.

UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFIGE.

WILLIS ARMSWORTH AND JAMES HULL BROWN, OF MONTIGELLO, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT lN CHECK-ROW-PLANTER ATTACHMENTS.-

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 201,479, dated March19, 1878; application filed September 19, 1877.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that we, WILLIS ARMSWORTH and J. HULL BROWN, of Monticello,Piatt county, State of Illinois, are the inventors of an ImprovedOheck-Row-Planter Attachment,

bodying our invention, and Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the same.

Our invention relates to the devices necessarily employed in check-rowplanters to operate the slide of the drill-box, and also to check orindicate the point in the row where the grain or seed has beendeposited; and our invention consists in the combination of deviceshereinafter described, and more particularly recited in the claim. V

A is a frame, which, by means of a bar, a, to which itis hinged orpivoted, is secured to the planter-tongue upon either side. It may, by asuitable arrangement of the parts, be arranged to be at the rear of theplanter. In this frame, on a centrally-located axle, is the wheel B.Upon this wheel the frameA rests and travels. Rising from the frame arethe two uprights G, to the upper ends of which are pivoted the levers D,on the inside of said supports. The long arm of each of these levers.engages successively one or more rollers 011.

pins fixed in the side of the wheel B, on either side thereof, while theshort arms of said levers, by means of the rods d, are connected to theextremities of the double bell-crank lever E, which is pivoted on theframe A. A rod, 6, connects the long arm of this bell-crank lever to aweighted lever, e, pivoted on the bar a, while the opposite arm of this'lever c is pivoted to the rod 0?, which operates the slide of 'thedrill-box- Upon one side of the wheel B are, as before stated, therollers b b, on pins fixed in the wheel. Upon the other side of thewheel are similarly arranged the rollers 12 b the same being setintermediate to the rollers b b on the other side.

The attachment thus arranged is adapted to operate a drill, therevolution of the wheel B bringing the rollers b I) b Ifialternately incontact or-engagement with the long arms of the levers D, and, by theirmovement in passin g under the said arms of the levers, causing the saidlevers to rock alternately on their pivots. This movement of the leversD, it is evident, causes the intermittent rocking of the doublebell-crank lever E, which thus, through the rod 6 and lever 6, gives thedesired reciprocating motion to the slide-rod 6 In the rim of thewheel-B are set the checks or markers 0, diametrically opposite to eachother. When it is desired to check or mark the rows of grain, therollers b and b may be removed from the wheel B, and b transferred tothe opposite side of the wheel. The rollers and checks 0 will thuscorrespond in position on the wheel, each roller having an adjacentmarker. By the revolution of the wheel B each movement of the slide, bythe engagement of either of the rollers b or b with their respectivelever D, and the consequent dropping of the grain, will be checked byone of the checks 0.

The distance between rows in check -row planting maybe regulated by theemployment of difl'erent sizes of the wheel B, one of larger diameterbeing used for wide rows, and one of less for narrow rows.

What we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-- In combination, the frame A, rod a, wheel B, with its rollers 11b 1) b (one or more,) and its checks 0, (one or more,) levers D onuprights (l, rods d, double bell-crank lever E, rod 6, Weighted leverc,and slide-rod 0 as de scribed, and to operate for the purpose specified.

WILLis ARMSWO-RTH. JAMES HULL BROWN.

' Witnesses:

JAMES A. HUsroN, JOHN R. HUSTON.

